Manufacture of textile fabrics.



'nnrrnn STATES PATENT oFFrc JOE WILKINSON, 0F BRADFORD, ENGLAND, ASSIGNO'R TO THE BRADFORD DYERS ASSOCIATION, LIMITED, OF BRADFORD, ENGLAND.

MANUFACTURE OF TEXTILE FABRICS.

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county of York, England, have inventednew and useful Improvements in' the Manufacture of Textile Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of tcxil'e fabrics.

In the nn'inufacture of fabrics of artificial silk threads, either combined with cotton threads or without cotton threads, mainly ficial silk threads, difficulty is experienced in weaving the Warp threads in the required positions and at-a uniform tension.

The object of this invention is to overcomethese difficulties and to obtain an improved fabric of artificial silk threads or of artificial silk threads and cotton threads, which fabric is of a light and delicate nature.

According to this invention, yarns composed of artificial silk threadstwisted with woolen or other threads of animal fiber, either in conjunction with cotton yarns or not, are woven into a fabric, The fabric is then treated to destroy the animal threads, preferably with caustic alkali, a delicate fabric composed of artificiaL silk thread or of artificial silk threads and cotton threads is thus obtained.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented B131. 26, 1912. Application filed March 23, 1911. Serial Il'o. 616,44A.

of animal fiber to form the Warpfwith the required elasticity, and afterward destroying the animal fiber leaving warp threads of artificial silk only, substantially as described. I a

2. In the manufacture of textile fabrics,

weaving together yarns of artificial silk threads twisted with others of animal fiber 'togive the required elasticity in the warp and afterwarddestroying the animal fiber throughout the fabric, substantially as described. i

3. In the manufacture of textile fabrics, weaving together Weft threads and yarns of artificial silk threads twisted with Woolen threads and afterward destroying the woolen threads throughout the fabric, substantially as described,

4. In t-he'manufact-ure of textile fabrics,

weaving together-yarns of artificial silk threads twisted with others of animal fiber and cotton yarns and afterward destroying the animal fiber throughout the fabric, substantially as described. t I JOE 'WILKIN SON. WVit-nesses: v v I y T. D. BUTTEROASE, AUGUSTUS E. INGRAM. 

